A comet that probably shouldn’t have survived its close encounter with the Sun two weeks ago made it out alive. Barely. C/2015 D1 (SOHO), discovered on Feb. 18th by Thai amateur Worachate Boonplod, strayed within 2.6 million miles of the solar furnace at perihelion the very next day.
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